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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






2. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






3. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






4. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






5. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






6. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






7. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






8. What is normal BMI?






9. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






10. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






11. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






12. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






13. When does BMR decrease?






14. How many calories/gram is protein?






15. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






16. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






17. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






18. Where can you get more vitamin D?






19. Sources of fats






20. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






21. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






22. When does BMR increase?






23. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






24. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






25. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






26. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






27. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






28. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






29. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






30. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






31. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






32. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






33. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






34. What is the function of vitamin E?






35. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






36. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






37. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






38. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






39. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






40. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






41. What type of people need extra protein?






42. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






43. What foods have high quality protein?






44. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






45. What is the function of vitamin C?






46. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






47. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






48. Name six sources of grains






49. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






50. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?